2:13am September 22, 2014

I studied linguistics in college. I'm tired of hearing people say...

• "You studied linguistics? Language is so fascinating!! Why, did you know the Eskimos have thousands of words for snow?"
• "English is the hardest and most complex language in the world."
• "Chinese and Japanese are more complex than English because they have such a big alphabet."
• "'Irregardless' and 'ain't' are not words."
• "Educated people have better language skills than uneducated people."
• "Sign languages are not real languages. Deaf people don't need sign language cause they can just read lips."
• "French, Spanish, and Italian came from Latin. And so did English."
• "Children shouldn't go to school with a lot of non-English speaking kids, cause it'll corrupt their English."
• "My great-grandparents were German, so it'd be easy for me to learn German."
• "Shakespeare wrote his plays in Old English."<p>Same. It gets old really, really fast.</p>

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